Official Match Thread Southend United v Crawley Town

[Danshrimper]

Blokes had 24 hours with this **** squad that you're boy built and you're acting surprised that he isn't smashing teams.. have a day off.

What we saw today still isn't good enough but I saw a lot more to be positive about than we have watching us stink the place out under MM.

‘My boy’ what the **** are you talking about? My point is why bother making a managerial change so late in the season if the squad clearly needs a lot ofwork. We don’t have time to work on the squad, there’s 5 games left and we’re 4 points off safety FFS.

Besides, hasn’t the narrative been that the squad is good enough to stay up but MM wasn’t good enough to keep them up. Now all of a sudden the squad is the problem.

No idea what game you were watching if you think that was positive, Crawley deserved to win.

 

[Phippsy]

No goals scored at home since January says it all. That I'm afraid is relegation stats

 

[Rob Noxious]

Look on the bright side, Dover is a nice day out.

And so is Torquay. If they don't go up, of course.

 

[Green Wizard]

What are the odds that we will be playing Colchester next year in the Conference

 

[Murkey_Mouse]

Could be worst, we could be bottom or 7 points behind Col Ewes ??‍

 

[Stuart W]

We are so weak from midfield upwards. Look at the stats and we looked comparable to Crawley, but watching it I thought they were more creative, skilful and quicker than us. Thank goodness they were so wasteful.
I thought Holmes was our best attacking player and once he went off it was just a question of keeping Crawley out.
Whoever was in charge of recruitment should find a job outside of professional football.

 

[Liam AAS]

What are the odds that we will be playing Colchester next year in the Conference

Grimbsy had a man sent off today after he headbutted a teammate. If they leapfrog both us and Col U I will run naked up the pier.

 

[Stuart W]

I wonder what the record is for most amount of clean sheets for a relegated team?

What is that, clean sheets for the away sides at Roots Hall do you mean?

 

[Chris Powell's mate]

I noticed him tracking back quite a bit and giving my cover to Elvis, and the chances at the very end of the match he was involved with getting it into the box.

Granted he does run around a lot, but to be honest i'd sooner someone putting a shift in than someone ambling around the pitch.

Ambling; running - it doesn't matter if there's nothing to show for it.
RHF and Egbri don't win tackles.
The latter goes down easily; spreads his hands as if to ask why didn't you see that breath of wind foul me?
RHF wouldn't know a quick incisive move if it blocked his way in an alley.
That spinning on his left peg he feels has to be done every, every time costs us momentum.
But not as bad as that wild swing with his right foot, and then left-foot tap with the other.
I'm going to ask again: where the blue blazes is Akinola???!!!

 

[LI11]

We are so weak from midfield upwards. Look at the stats and we looked comparable to Crawley, but watching it I thought they were more creative, skilful and quicker than us. Thank goodness they were so wasteful.
I thought Holmes was our best attacking player and once he went off it was just a question of keeping Crawley out.
Whoever was in charge of recruitment should find a job outside of professional football.

Now that MM has gone, has head of recruitment Anton Robinson gone with him? Saw Ron said he got rid of most of the back room team but not sure who stayed

 

[MisterStubbs]

‘My boy’ what the **** are you talking about? My point is why bother making a managerial change so late in the season if the squad clearly needs a lot ofwork. We don’t have time to work on the squad, there’s 5 games left and we’re 4 points off safety FFS.

Besides, hasn’t the narrative been that the squad is good enough to stay up but MM wasn’t good enough to keep them up. Now all of a sudden the squad is the problem.

No idea what game you were watching if you think that was positive, Crawley deserved to win.

I thought it was a very even game, both teams had chances but both lacked the quality take them.

I agree, as much as I wanted MM.. leaving it until now is just typical Ron thing to do. As you say, PB can't make any changes to the squad itself, we can only hope that he stumbles on a system/formula that picks up some wins over the next few weeks.

 

[Strykr]

Im quite surprised that brown made a point of heeding duncan and fagans advice and they both advised bringing goodship on.

 

[Leigh_Seasider]

What is that, clean sheets for the away sides at Roots Hall do you mean?

Or that. We’re paying for our shocking start. Just a couple of wins in the first 15 and we’d be in with a prayer. Or even a few 0-0’s back then might've saved us! What’s frustrating me the most is we’re slipping out of the league drawing 0-0 or losing 0-1 .. not getting battered which in a way is harder to take!!

 

[Jay_SUFC]

It’s a complete myth that we haven’t got forward in previous games, we just can’t score. It was the same problem today.

I’ve no idea what game people were watching if they think that was any different or better than previous weeks.

No it's not a myth; I've watched our last 9 home games under MM and we were toilet in most of them; no-one getting in the box etc.

At least today we actually got in the box more.

 

[Medway Blue]

No it's not a myth; I've watched our last 9 home games under MM and we were toilet in most of them; no-one getting in the box etc.

At least today we actually got in the box more.

I'd certainly say there was more intent there to get forward and get in the box. And no Molesley-style 'every single player back in our box for opposition corners and free-kicks'. Still quite a few occasions where the ball went into the Crawley box and there was only 1 or sometimes even none of our players in there. Not to mention the fact that even when there were, nobody seems able to challenge for the ball and win a header. Attacking confidence and positioning/movement needs a lot of work. But at least there was more intent there though. Hopefully a week on the training ground with Brown will start turning it around.

 

[Holy Joe]

No it's not a myth; I've watched our last 9 home games under MM and we were toilet in most of them; no-one getting in the box etc.

At least today we actually got in the box more.

Why just count home games?

 

[Danshrimper]

No it's not a myth; I've watched our last 9 home games under MM and we were toilet in most of them; no-one getting in the box etc.

At least today we actually got in the box more.

How many clear cut chances did we have in the box today then apart from when RHF fluffed his lines? I must have missed them.

Crawley are on an awful run of form and whilst the first half was even, they played much better in the second half and had a lot more clear cut chances than us. They deserved to beat us. I saw no signs of improvement (not blaming PB). I think people are seeing improvement out of hope rather than anything else.

Again, this isn’t PB’s fault and I’m not blaming him. It’s too late in the day for him to make any drastic changes. The only way we stay up now is with a hell of a lot of luck.

 

[Jay_SUFC]

Why just count home games?

Because I haven't watched the recent away games and therefore I can't comment on those

 

[Wickford Blue]

Crawley should have scored at least once - we had some good chances but due (as I mentioned in another Post) our inability to be able to shoot/kick/pass with both feet has cost us! I would guess they are more disappointed than us in terms of the clear cut chances they dreads and missed

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Now that MM has gone, has head of recruitment Anton Robinson gone with him? Saw Ron said he got rid of most of the back room team but not sure who stayed

All his backroom staff went with him, apart from the match analysis guy.